Veza
Venture Round in 2023
Veza is the data security platform that helps users use and share their data safely. It makes it easy to understand, manage, and control who can and should take what action on what data. It organizes authorization metadata across identity providers, data systems, cloud service providers, and applications, all to address the toughest data security challenges of the modern era. The company is funded by top-tier investors including Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Blackstone, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
Grip Security
Series B in 2023
Grip Security is a developer of security applications that enhances visibility and control over an enterprise's entire SaaS portfolio, encompassing both known and unknown applications. The company's innovative SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP) solution provides organizations with comprehensive insights into user interactions and application usage, ensuring extreme accuracy and minimizing false positives. This enables security teams to effectively enforce security policies and prevent data loss while adapting to the evolving landscape of SaaS adoption. By modernizing security architecture, Grip Security supports businesses in implementing a secure and efficient IT strategy that aligns with their operational needs.
Symmetry Systems
Series B in 2023
Symmetry Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data security and privacy solutions. Established in 2015, the company offers a platform tailored to address modern data security challenges by providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their data assets. Symmetry’s platform assists in tracking data access and usage, thereby safeguarding against misuse, insider threats, and cyberattacks. It accommodates both structured and unstructured data across major cloud services, SaaS platforms, and on-premise databases. The platform operates as a read-only service, inheriting existing security and compliance controls, making it suitable for highly regulated environments. Its advanced AI capabilities equip organizations to manage data security risks, ensure compliance, and respond to threats effectively. Symmetry's innovations are trusted by leading financial service providers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company has roots in the Spark Research Lab at UT Austin and has received recognition as a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner.
Abnormal Security
Venture Round in 2023
Abnormal Security Corporation is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cloud-based email security solutions for Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from targeted email attacks. Utilizing a data science approach, Abnormal Security offers features such as inbound email protection, detection of email account compromises, and response capabilities. Its technology includes Abnormal Behavior Technology, which models identities of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships, and analyzes email content to prevent threats like credential phishing, internal phishing, employee impersonation, and invoice fraud. The company primarily serves industries including financial services, healthcare, and oil, gas, and utilities, aiming to mitigate risks related to account takeovers and financial losses.
Grip Security
Venture Round in 2023
Grip Security is a developer of security applications that enhances visibility and control over an enterprise's entire SaaS portfolio, encompassing both known and unknown applications. The company's innovative SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP) solution provides organizations with comprehensive insights into user interactions and application usage, ensuring extreme accuracy and minimizing false positives. This enables security teams to effectively enforce security policies and prevent data loss while adapting to the evolving landscape of SaaS adoption. By modernizing security architecture, Grip Security supports businesses in implementing a secure and efficient IT strategy that aligns with their operational needs.
AppOmni Inc. is a technology company specializing in security and management solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Bruno, California, with an additional office in Carbondale, Colorado, AppOmni offers a platform that enables enterprises to safeguard their cloud data. The platform performs in-depth scans of APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to identify and rectify risky configurations, improper access controls, and potential data exposures. It provides users with a comprehensive dashboard that offers visibility into the state of their cloud applications, highlights deviations from intended business practices, and allows for verification of application functionality and security. AppOmni's innovative approach to data access management and security is supported by a leadership team with extensive experience in the SaaS and cybersecurity sectors. The company has received recognition for its contributions to cybersecurity, being named in various industry lists as a notable player in the field.
Drata is a Trust Management Platform based in San Diego, California, founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz. The company specializes in security compliance automation, assisting organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with various standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, and NIST CSF. Drata's platform offers continuous, automated monitoring and evidence collection, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with annual audits. By providing actionable insights, reports, alerts, and seamless SaaS integrations, Drata enables enterprises to build trust with their users and partners while facilitating secure business growth.
Oak9 is a company specializing in cloud native security solutions. It focuses on integrating security directly into the application design process, allowing developers to maintain fast development cycles while ensuring robust security measures are in place. Oak9's Security as Code platform dynamically secures Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploys cloud workloads automatically. This approach enables businesses to simplify their application security by providing pre-built building blocks that support various architectures across different cloud providers, ensuring both security and compliance from the outset.
Spectro Cloud
Series B in 2022
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in Kubernetes management. Founded in 2019, it offers a Cloud-as-a-Service platform designed to facilitate the deployment and management of Kubernetes across various environments, including public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal setups. The company's Palette platform provides comprehensive control over the Kubernetes lifecycle, catering to the needs of Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams. It supports both virtual machine and container workloads, allowing organizations to manage complex Kubernetes environments with ease. The platform includes features for compliance, security, and health monitoring of clusters, empowering IT teams to deliver tailored Kubernetes stacks and tools to developers. Spectro Cloud is recognized as a leader in the industry, earning accolades such as being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and receiving recognition in GigaOm's 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.
Noname Security
Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.
ThoughtSpot
Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a provider of search-driven analytics designed for enterprises, enabling users to easily search and analyze data, generate instant charts, build reports, and create dashboards. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot serves various sectors including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing. The company's platform leverages a natural language search interface, allowing users to obtain actionable insights quickly and efficiently. It connects seamlessly with on-premise, cloud, and big data sources, centralizing data management and facilitating intelligent decision-making. Additionally, ThoughtSpot offers low-code integration solutions for developers, enhancing analytics capabilities within existing products and services. With a focus on empowering users to explore data, ThoughtSpot aims to drive growth and improve business outcomes across organizations. The company has expanded its presence globally with locations in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, India, and Japan.
Noname Security
Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.
VAST Data
Series D in 2021
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.
SecurityScorecard
Series E in 2021
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.
Valtix Inc. is a software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in cloud network security solutions. Founded in 2018, Valtix offers a multi-cloud network security platform that simplifies the security of public cloud applications. The platform automatically discovers applications and allows administrators to implement deep inspection policies quickly, catering to the needs of DevOps teams. This approach enables security teams to deploy an auto-scaling security service efficiently, avoiding the complexity and high costs associated with managing multiple vendor appliances. Valtix's solutions support various cloud architectures, providing flexibility from secure isolated environments to centralized security models, thereby helping cloud teams meet stringent security requirements effectively.
Synack, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm that specializes in providing a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Synack connects organizations with skilled ethical hackers to assess their security systems. The platform combines human intelligence from a global network of security researchers with proprietary scanning technology and artificial intelligence to deliver effective and efficient security assessments. Synack's services include application security, bug bounty programs, cloud security, vulnerability management, and manual security assessments, all aimed at ensuring data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality for enterprises. By leveraging a military-grade virtual private testing environment, Synack allows organizations to continuously test their attack surfaces and obtain actionable insights, thereby enhancing their overall security posture.
VAST Data
Series C in 2020
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.
Cohesity, Inc. is a data management technology company that specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2013 and based in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity aims to simplify the protection, management, and extraction of value from data. Its flagship product, the Cohesity DataPlatform, consolidates secondary data and workflows, eliminating storage silos and streamlining data management. The company also offers DataProtect, which integrates various data protection functions, including backup and disaster recovery, as well as the Cohesity Orion platform for comprehensive data protection and big data storage. Additionally, Cohesity provides tools for monitoring and managing data infrastructure through its SaaS-based solution, Cohesity Helios, and its mobile application. The company serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and maintains a strategic partnership with Pure Storage to enhance its offerings.
Harness, Inc. is a technology company that develops a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform aimed at simplifying the software delivery process for engineering and DevOps teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform leverages machine learning to automate various aspects of code deployment, including test prioritization, cloud cost management, and continuous verification. Key features of Harness's platform include a pipeline builder, workflow wizard, automated rollback capabilities, secrets management, audit trails, and real-time delivery analytics. By streamlining these processes, Harness enables organizations to accelerate their cloud initiatives and enhance their adoption of modern containerization and orchestration technologies.
BigPanda, Inc. is a software development company that provides a data science platform for centralizing and correlating IT alerts, enabling IT operations teams to detect, investigate, and resolve incidents effectively. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, the company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform IT data into actionable insights. By consolidating alerts from various monitoring tools, BigPanda helps organizations understand the impact of IT issues on their business, automate incident management, and streamline fragmented IT operations. Its services are utilized by diverse industries, including retail, technology, and media, with clients such as Intel, TiVO, Turner Broadcasting, and Workday, aiming to enhance service availability, reduce operational costs, and support digital transformation initiatives.
Trifacta is a developer of an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform that enhances the efficiency of data wrangling while ensuring data quality. The platform allows users to connect to any data from various sources, facilitating a self-service approach to data management. Trifacta enables users to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, thereby accelerating data transformation and automating robust data pipelines. With its open cloud platform, Trifacta empowers organizations to make informed decisions by unlocking the potential of their data. The company serves tens of thousands of users across more than 10,000 organizations globally, including prominent brands such as Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo.
ThoughtSpot
Series E in 2019
ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a provider of search-driven analytics designed for enterprises, enabling users to easily search and analyze data, generate instant charts, build reports, and create dashboards. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ThoughtSpot serves various sectors including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing. The company's platform leverages a natural language search interface, allowing users to obtain actionable insights quickly and efficiently. It connects seamlessly with on-premise, cloud, and big data sources, centralizing data management and facilitating intelligent decision-making. Additionally, ThoughtSpot offers low-code integration solutions for developers, enhancing analytics capabilities within existing products and services. With a focus on empowering users to explore data, ThoughtSpot aims to drive growth and improve business outcomes across organizations. The company has expanded its presence globally with locations in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, India, and Japan.
Bitglass, Inc. is an information technology company that specializes in providing security solutions for sensitive data across cloud and mobile platforms while maintaining employee privacy. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Bitglass offers a comprehensive cloud security platform that integrates a cloud access security broker, a secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access. This platform enables enterprises to move to SaaS-based and mobile environments securely, delivering real-time end-to-end data protection. Bitglass's solutions allow organizations to track confidential files, monitor for suspicious behavior, and receive alerts regarding policy violations and data leakage, ensuring robust security for all interactions across devices. The company also has regional offices in Toronto, Canada.
VAST Data
Series B in 2019
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.
Cohesity, Inc. is a data management technology company that specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2013 and based in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity aims to simplify the protection, management, and extraction of value from data. Its flagship product, the Cohesity DataPlatform, consolidates secondary data and workflows, eliminating storage silos and streamlining data management. The company also offers DataProtect, which integrates various data protection functions, including backup and disaster recovery, as well as the Cohesity Orion platform for comprehensive data protection and big data storage. Additionally, Cohesity provides tools for monitoring and managing data infrastructure through its SaaS-based solution, Cohesity Helios, and its mobile application. The company serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and maintains a strategic partnership with Pure Storage to enhance its offerings.